poetry & literature

DAN WYLIE teaches English at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has published two books on the Zulu leader Shaka (Savage Delight: White Myths of Shaka and Myth of Iron: Shaka in History, both UKZN Press); a memoir; Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War (UKZN Press); and several volumes of poetry. Most recently, he has concentrated on Zimbabwean literature and on ecological concerns in literature. He founded the annual Literature & Ecology Colloquium in 2004, and edited the collection of essays, Toxic Belonging? Identity and Ecology in Southern Africa (Cambridge Scholars Press). His latest publication is Elephant, in the Reaktion Books animals series. CRAIG MACKENZIE teaches in the English Department at the University of Johannesburg. He recently published The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2010), co-written with Gareth Cornwell and Dirk Klopper.